He showed you the best of Jerry Koosman, the best of Jon Matlack, one of our own stating his case now as the Mets ace, at least until the next time Jacob deGrom states his and the next time Noah Syndergaard states his and Matt Harvey remembers how to state his.

“That’s not something I think about,” Steven Matz said after Mets 8, Braves 0. “I just think about, honestly as cliché as it sounds, my focus is just get my work done, go out there and pitch. I don’t think about, ‘Oh, I can be the ace’ or any of that. It’s kind of a distraction, so for me, it’s just stay on the path, stay focused …”

Only when Erick Aybar lined a single an inch over the reach of shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera and a one-hit shutout became a two-hit shutout did Terry Collins take the ball from him four outs from a complete game because 106 pitches in a blowout in which Lucas Duda slugged two of the Mets’ four home runs in early May is more than enough.

Matz and Bats is more than enough.

“I just think he wants to show everybody, ‘Look, that first outing was a freak; that I can pitch and I belong in this rotation, and I’m as good as everybody talked about in the beginning,’ and he is that,” Collins said. “We had no doubt in our mind he was this good.”

There is no drama around Matz. He is the anti-Dark Knight in that regard. More of a Silent Knight. He didn’t make it out of the second inning in his first start against the Marlins and didn’t make a peep about being asked to work on 10 days’ rest. He reminds the manager of former Braves southpaw Steve Avery.

“I trust our minor-league people, but they’ve told me, ‘This guy might be better than all of ’em in the end,’” Collins said.

Over his last four starts, Matz (4-1) has yielded two earned runs over 27 innings. Against the anemic Braves, it was as if he was back pitching in the Three Village Little League or back at Ward Melville High School in East Setaucket, LI.

“I felt really comfortable,” Matz said. “When you can throw all your pitches for strikes, it makes the day so much easier. You don’t even necessarily have to have your sharpest stuff out there, your best fastball, but when you can get ’em for strikes, it opens up so many doors, outlets you can come in with.”

He was a machine, an Iron-Steven pitching machine, a model of composure, getting the ball back from catcher Rene Rivera and working quickly in the mist, pounding the zone effortlessly and methodically, off-speed pitches in fastball counts, that 94-mph fastball, eight strikeouts, nary a base on balls, one hit batsman.

Around the horn we go:

First baseman Lucas Duda: “As an infielder, that makes our job just a little bit easier. He’s obviously got a quick tempo, he attacks the zone, he pitches to contact — I mean, today he had a lot of strikeouts, too. He’s got great stuff, and he’s only gonna get better, so that’s pretty scary.”

Second baseman Neil Walker: “As an infielder, it’s great to work behind somebody like Steven when he’s going well because he’s working quick, he’s throwing sinkers, he’s throwing a lot of strikes, getting a lot of ground balls and it’s keeping everybody involved. So days like today, it’s a lot of fun.”

Cabrera: “That means you gotta be ready for any ground balls because he’s working fast, he throws strikes, so I enjoy when you got a guy like that on the mound.”

Third baseman Wilmer Flores: “He’s got a power sinker. It’s hard for the hitters when he throws it inside, and the big curveball, it’s a good mix.”

A dream day, of course, for Rivera: “If you have a guy who works quick and he just gets the ball and wants to pitch, I think it keeps the other team off-balance,” Rivera said.

A sleepy day for the left fielder: “On days like today when he’s got it all going, he’s just masterful out there, and it’s fun to watch. It’s definitely fun to play behind,” Michael Conforto said.

A third-inning single up the middle by pitcher Jhoulys Chacin off a fastball had been the lone hit off Matz before he began to tire at the end of the seventh.

The view from the dugout was every bit as lovely.

“It’s great when you come off a loss and you could look at five different guys and say, ‘This guy can be a stopper,’ ” said David Wright, who had the day off. “And we got a bunch of ’em.”